The Dutchman works quite diligently, but still has many
illusions about the originality of his way of seeing
things. He is doing studies somewhat like those Koning did, a
little grey, a little green, with a red roof and a whitish
road.

What is one to say in a case like this? If he has money,
then certainly he would do well to paint, but if he has to intrigue
a lot to make sales, I pity him because he does paintings like
the others because they buy them at a relatively excessive
price. He will get there though, if only he works diligently
every day. But alone or with painters who work little, he won't
come to much, I think.

I hope to do the portrait of Mlle. Gachet next week, and
perhaps I shall have a country girl pose too. I am glad that
Bock made that exchange with me, for I find that, between friends,
they have paid a little dearly relatively for the
other canvas.

A little later on I should very much like to come to Paris
for several days just to go and look up Quost and Jeannin and
one or two others. I should very much like you to have a Quost,
and there might probably be some way of exchanging one. Gachet
came today to look at the canvases of the Midi. Good
luck with the little one and a good handshake in thought to you and Jo.

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At this time, Vincent was 37 year old

Source:Vincent van Gogh. Letter to Theo van Gogh. Written 24 or 25 June 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise. Translated by Robert Harrison, edited by Robert Harrison, number 644.URL: http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/644.htm.